The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, November 7, 1989 - Page 5 Mushrooms yield big profits tor LANSING (A success among launched from M versity laboratorie its start producin rooms. Test kits to hel other food growe fight the aflatoxi Neogen's rapid gr But seven year based spin-off co with the discover techniques to g gourmet mushro tory. "This was a se ery of MSU res Neogen Presidei said. "Until then, produce morel m cally for over 200 cess." Neogen becam success stories a research in this Cantlon, universi and graduate studi Two other fas companies are Me Inc. of Okemus, ning microscope search, and Wav company P) - The biggest mouth company producing mi- young companies crowave equipment to make thin ichigan State Uni- films for manufacturing use. s in the 1980's got Neogen, the biggest success, has Ig gourmet mush- started a spin-off research company of its own called Company M to p peanut, corn and carry on the mushroom project. -rs and processors Company M expects to produce a n threat now fuel few hundred pounds of morels a owth. week by mid-1990 in a pilot pro- s ago, the Lansing- gram, and Neogen will collect royal- mpany got its start ties on future sales. y of biotechnology Neogen is turning its attention to row $20-a-pound the food-safety niche, Herbert said. oms in the labora- "We're in the right place in the right time." rendipitous discov- Farmers, ranchers and food pro- earchers in 1982," cessors use Neogen's diagnostic kit nt James Herbert in field tests for aflatoxin, a poison people had tried to that flourishes in hot, dry, weather.. More Arrivals Almost 700 East-Germans arrive in Glessen, 80 kms north of Frankfurt, after a long train ride from Prague, yesterday afternoon. Some flashed the V-sign when they departed the train, before being taken to the West-German Steuben army barracks for temporary shelter. Contras to meet with Sandinistas ushrooms domesti- years without suc- ae the first of three irising form MSU decade, said John ty dean of research es. :t-growing spin-off eridian Instruments making laser-scan- ~s for cellular re- vemat Inc., a .Ply- Aflatoxin has proven a potent cause of cancer in laboratory animals and is thought to contribute to high rates of liver cancer in parts of Asia and Africa. It has infested corn and peanut crops and broke out in the Midwest farm belt during the 1988 drought. Neogen's kits can be used for $3 to $6 a test, on site substituting for tests that typically cost $30 to $50 if performed by laboratories, which take several days. UNITED. NATIONS (AP) - Leaders of Nicaraguan rebels have ,agreed to meet Sandinista govern- nent representatives this week for the first direct peace talks in more than a year. U.N. officials said yes- terday. When President Daniel Ortega canceled a 19-month-old truce last week, he also proposed a meeting at U.N. headquarters. Nadia Younes, a U.N. spokeswoman, said the two sides had agreed to meet Thursday and Friday. Nicaragua's U.N. mission said Victor Hugo Tinoco, deputy foreign minister, probably would lead the government delegation. A senior U.N. official said pri- vately all issues will be on the table, including the voluntary disbanding of the rebels, known as Contras; se- Leaders of Nicaraguan rebels to meet Sandinista government representatives at U.N. curity guarantees for those repatriated from rebel bases in neighboring Honduras and political reform in Nicaragua. In Honduras, Contra military leader Enrique Bermudez told The Associated Press, "We have accepted the new proposal for dialogue from Ortega," and said he would lead a five-man rebel delegation. Cardinal Miguel Obando y Bravo, Roman Catholic primate of Nicaragua, has agreed to attend as an abserver. He has been a go-between for the Sandinistas and Contras in the past. Also present will be the Interna- tional Commission for Verification and Support consisting of one offi- cial each from the United Nations and Organization of American States. The commission was estab- lished under the Central American peace plan of Aug. 7 to help the Contras disarm and resettle in Nicaragua with their families. The Contras are expected to insist on resuming the cease-fire. They also want a general amnesty and guarantees that they can visit Read Wae CDadci Nicaragua to verify that reforms have been made and it is safe for them to return. A senior U.N. official said privately all issues will be on the table, including the voluntary disbanding of the rebels, known as Contras; security guarantees for those repatriated from rebel bases in neighboring Honduras; and political reform in Nicaragua. The peace plan says the Contras must be disbanded by Dec. 5, but also that their repatriation be volun- tary. LANSING (AP) - A woman who died after her car plunged off the Mackinac Bridge was speeding at the time of the accident, state police said in a report released yesterday. Leslie Pluhar of Royal Oak was driving between 55 and 63 mph across the 45 mph bridge on Sept. 22, the report states. The report, the result of a six- week investigation, immediately was decried as being inconclusive. "This report says nothing at all. There are no conclusions at all, nothing along the lines of 'Don't do this because it might happen to you,"' said Tom Greene, chief of staff for Sen. Richard Fessler (R- Bridge plunge victim was speeding, report says West Bloomfield), whose transporta tion committee also is investigating the incident. Green accused the state police re- port of deliberate vagueness because of the threat of a civil suit. Pluhar's family retained a lawyer to investi- gate the incident, causing Attorney General Frank Kelley to order inves- tigators not to testify at Fessler's committee hearings last month. State police Lt. Dan Smith in Lansing said investigators will con- tinue to provide information to the Mackinac Bridge Authority, state Department of Transportation and at- torney general's office in the case. Hated Batman? Loved Bernstein? Leave your roommate alone - Tell it to the world in 'Daly Arts Call 763-0379 Cis.. '1 Are you ,.. C_ c I I E MOR Yo B Enthusiastic, dedicated U of M tudents needed to help raise money p th Universit by c hin G 'a m con'itls0 " Pi t um ea ork y -ing ours . 7 /hour plus bonuses If you are t vy, Y EI E RET $ Cm. 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